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Lucas Foglia

Annalisa Kaiser stops to smell the pink pearl apple blossoms after closing the greenhouses for the night.

Spinach from two regenerative farms had about four times the phenolic compounds than samples obtained at New York supermarkets.

Singing Frogs Farm also grows pink ranunculus flowers for farmers' markets.

Relaxing after working hard on the farm.

The three Kaiser children enjoy the work and play of farm living. Lucas tosses a cabbage, Elizabet weeds the field, and Annalisa bonds with a caterpillar. Researchers studied cabbage, carrots, spinach, and soil from Singing Frogs Farm and discovered that the cabbage grown on the regenerative farm had 46 percent more vitamin K, 31 percent more vitamin E, 33 percent more vitamin B1, 60 percent more vitamin B3, and 23 percent more vitamin B5 than cabbage from the regularly tilled organic field. The cabbage also had more calcium, more potassium, more carotenoids, and more phytosterols.

A frog takes a break on a farmers arm as he washes broccoli.

Not tilling preserves the health of the soil and pays off. A California regenerative farm, which does not till the fields, had almost four times the soil organic matter and a soil health score three times higher than either of two fields at a tilled organic farm. Richer soil yields fruits and vegetables that have more nutrients.

Boden Cunningham sits in the soil and prepares a new garden bed for planting.

Nothing is wasted. Weeds are saved for the compost pile, to make the soil that is added to the garden beds.

At the Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, California, the Kaiser family embraces regenerative farming methods, like using goats to graze the lawn which disturbs the soil less than mowing.